1 hour ago Trump taps Hollywood ‘ambassadors’ to be his industry ‘eyes and ears’; Official portrait revealed: Live

President-elect says Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight will report to him on movie business

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32 hours ago US inflation ticks up in December and remains above Fed’s 2% target rate

Consumer price index rose at annual rate of 2.9% and while Trump promised to cut prices he now says it will be hardInflation ticked up across the US last month, according to the last report on consumer prices under the Biden administration.Donald Trump has promised to bring prices down for millions of Americans. But while price rises have slowed sharply since their post-pandemic peak of 9.1%, the pace of inflation remains higher than the Federal Reserve’s target rate of 2% per annum. Continue reading...

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9 hours ago Trump lists old allies banned from jobs in new administration as he attempts to take ceasefire credit: Live

President-elect says estranged first term veterans like Mike Pence, John Bolton and Nikki Haley will not be welcomed back in latest Truth Social diatribe

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2 hours ago Donald Trump vows to help ‘troubled’ Hollywood with Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone

Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has chosen Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone to help

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31 hours ago Nationwide abortion restrictions will have a deadly impact, experts warn

The incoming Trump administration is expected to impose further restrictions on abortion with deadly effect, warn experts

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2 hours ago Trump names Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as Hollywood ‘special ambassadors’

Duties remain unclear for the three actors, who are Trump supporters and are no strangers to controversyDonald Trump has tapped three of his longstanding celebrity supporters – Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone – to purportedly make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” as “special ambassadors” to the movie capital.The president-elect announced the new appointments, whose duties remain unclear, on Truth Social on Thursday, four days before his inauguration. “It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” he wrote. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago TikTok ban: Biden admin ‘exploring options’ and the app might not be gone Sunday

If the administration stops the ban, the issue would be adjudicated by the incoming Trump administration

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7 hours ago Trump names and shames 11 people on his White House blacklist for second administration

The list includes some of Trump’s well known ‘enemies’ who served in his first administration

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8 hours ago Donald Trump UK state visit he 'craves' must come with one key condition

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said Donald Trump's incoming US administration represents a 'threat to peace and security' across the world in major speech

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17 hours ago Biden demands constitutional amendment on presidential immunity in final warning before Trump takes power

Trump’s administration is expected to be full of lawyers who fought to expand the scope of presidential power

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21 hours ago MAGA world tries to keep Don Jr's girlfriend Bettina Anderson away from Trump inauguration

Allies of Donald Trump and the incoming administration continue to be worried about the presence of Donald Trump Jr .'s new girlfriend, Bettina Anderson.

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26 hours ago Biden says Israel, Hamas have reached ceasefire deal after ‘intensive diplomacy’

The deal was reached after negotiations involving representatives of both the Biden and incoming Trump administrations

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28 hours ago UK says a deal on the Chagos Islands won't be finalized until Trump is consulted

Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is consulted

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30 hours ago UK stalls Chagos Islands deal until Trump administration can ‘consider detail’

Future of Diego Garcia military base should be considered before handover to Mauritius signed off, No 10 saysUK politics live – latest updatesThe UK government will not sign off a deal to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius until Donald Trump’s administration has had a chance to consider the future of the joint military base, Downing Street has confirmed.Allies of the US president-elect have been critical of the deal because of the implications for the strategically important Diego Garcia base, with concerns that it could bolster Chinese interests in the Indian Ocean. Continue reading...

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31 hours ago Trump administration will be allowed to consider Chagos Islands deal, says No 10

Allies of the US president-elect have been critical of the deal because of implications for the strategically important Diego Garcia military base.

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